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The Hobbit is a cinematic trilogy adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit, distributed by New Line Picture palace.

Guillermo del Toro had originally signed to directly the movies, but due to various delays and conflicts with schedules, announced that he would not be able to directly them. The position was later on taken over by Peter Jackson, the director of the The Lord of the Rings films, who became Executive Producer. Certain cast (Ian McKellen, Andy Serkis, Orlando Bloom, Hugo Weaving, Elijah Forest, Ian Holm, Christopher Lee, Cate Blanchett ) and crew (Weta Workshop, John Howe, Alan Lee, Mark Ordesky) reprised their roles from the Lord of the Rings films. The three parts, entitled The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, and The Hobbit: The Battle of the V Armies were filmed back-to-back with the release dates December 2012, Dec 2013 and December 2014 past MGM and New Line Cinema. The production was originally planned as a two-part accommodation, but ultimately became a trilogy.

Contents

  • i Films
  • 2 Bandage
    • 2.ane Principal
    • 2.2 Significant
    • 2.3 Not-speaking roles
  • 3 Development
    • three.ane Previous Attempts
    • 3.ii Early development
    • 3.3 Development under Del Toro
  • 4 Preproduction
    • 4.i Casting
    • iv.2 Design
    • 4.3 Industrial dispute and filming location
  • five Production
    • five.1 Cake One
    • five.ii Block Two
    • 5.3 Block Three
    • 5.four Option-upwards shoots
      • 5.four.i 2012 Pickups
      • five.4.2 2013 Pickups
  • 6 Postal service-Production
    • 6.1 Editing
    • six.2 Visual Effects
    • 6.3 Scoring
  • vii Awards
  • 8 Box Office
  • 9 Gallery
  • ten References
  • 11 External links

Films

  • The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012)
  • The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013)
  • The Hobbit: The Boxing of the Five Armies (2014)

The Shire set

Cast

Main

  • Ian McKellen every bit Gandalf the Grey
  • Martin Freeman as Young Bilbo Baggins
  • Richard Armitage as Thorin 2 Oakenshield
  • Ken Stott as Balin
  • Graham McTavish as Dwalin
  • William Kircher as Bifur
  • James Nesbitt equally Bofur
  • Stephen Hunter every bit Bombur
  • Dean O'Gorman as Fili
  • Aidan Turner as Kíli
  • John Callen as Óin
  • Peter Hambleton every bit Glóin
  • Jed Brophy as Nori
  • Mark Hadlow as Dori
  • Adam Brownish equally Ori
  • Antony Sher as Thrain II
  • Lee Pace equally Thranduil
  • Orlando Bloom as Legolas
  • Evangeline Lilly as Tauriel
  • Luke Evans every bit Bard the Bowman and Girion
  • Stephen Fry equally Master of Laketown
  • Ryan Cuff as Alfrid
  • John Bell as Bain
  • Peggy Nesbitt as Sigrid
  • Mary Nesbitt equally Tilda

Pregnant

  • Elijah Wood as Frodo Baggins
  • Cate Blanchett as Galadriel
  • Mikael Persbrandt every bit Beorn
  • Sylvester McCoy every bit Radagast the Brown
  • Christopher Lee every bit Saruman the White
  • Bret McKenzie as Lindir
  • Craig Hall as Galion
  • Robin Kerr as Elros
  • Simon London as Feren
  • Eli Kent as Lethuin
  • Jeffrey Thomas as Thrór
  • Michael Mizrahi as Thráin Ii
  • Baton Connolly as Dáin II Ironfoot
  • Andy Serkis as Gollum
  • Benedict Cumberbatch every bit Smaug and Necromancer
  • Barry Humphries equally Great Goblin
  • Manu Bennett equally Azog
  • Conan Stevens as Bolg
  • Lawrence Makoare as Bolg
  • John Tui as Bolg
  • John Rawls as Yazneg
  • Stephen Ure as Fimbul the Hunter and Grinnah
  • Ben Mitchell as Narzug
  • William Kircher as Tom the Troll
  • Mark Hadlow as Bert the Troll
  • Peter Hambleton every bit William the Troll
  • Thomas Robins as Young Thrain Ii
  • Timothy Bartlett as Master Worrywort
  • Hugo Weaving as Elrond
  • Ian Holm as Erstwhile Bilbo Baggins

Non-speaking roles

  • Roäc
  • Witch-king of Angmar

Development

Previous Attempts

Walt Disney considered animating segments of The Hobbit and setting them to the audio of Wagner'south Ring bike for Fantasia, but was talked out of it. He continued having an involvement in Tolkien books throughout the 1950s.

Tolkien had forwarded his publisher a suggestion in his fan-mail to have The Hobbit adapted as a 4-part serial. Rayner Unwin rejected it for fearfulness of information technology "incarcerating u.s. in the Odens for eight or 10 hours."

In 1961, Producer William 50. Snyder entered negotiations with Tolkien to adapt the book to animation. Exploiting the fact that the books were temporarily public domain in the United States (due to a publication mishap) allowed him to lease the rights until 30th June 1967 for a downpayment of $15,000. He commissioned Factor Deitch to write and breathing, but couldn't get funding and concluded up compelling Deitch to condense the movie into a unmarried reel (12 infinitesimal) short which was shown to twelve people in a projection booth in New York. He then sold the rights to United Artists, who were ownership them off of Tolkien at the time.

In 1972, Vance Gerry of Disney sent a memo virtually The Hobbit, including concept art of Bilbo, a synopsis of the book and the admission that the story contains "far more than incidents in the story than we could ever employ" and that "many sections are too frightening for our purposes." With the rights sitting with United Artists, it went no further. Instead, Saul Zaentz got an pick on The Hobbit when he prepare out to make The Lord of the Rings with Ralph Bakshi. With the project discontinued afterwards the kickoff entry, Zaentz was left with the rights to produce an adaptation of The Hobbit, while the distribution rights stayed with MGM, who were previously involved with Bakshi's motion-picture show.

Arthur Rankin Junior exploited the loophole in the US publication of The Hobbit to begin developing information technology into a TV Special. To air in Canada, the special was eventually "authorized through a serial of settlement agreements." George Lucas was rumoured to have had an interest in The Hobbit in the 1980s, having pulled on it for inspiration for Star Wars. Instead, he and Ron Howard made Willow in 1988. Other than two unathorized Soviet adaptations, the rights to The Hobbit would remain untouched.

Peter Jackson had an involvement in making a fantasy film, and watched the 1980s Sword-and-Sorcery movies, noting that many of them were "B-course" and "blatantly Middle Earth-ish", with Willow existence accounted "meaningless fantasy mumbo-jumbo" and Bakshi'southward Lord of the Rings "ambitious" simply "incoherent." He hadn't seen the Rankin/Bass Goggle box Special, which didn't air in New Zealand.

Early on evolution

Peter Jackson and his parner Fran Walsh started developing an original fantasy film in 1995, before they decided to endeavor and adapt Tolkien's works. Jackson wanted to adapt The Lord of the Rings, merely Walsh then suggested they should beginning with The Hobbit, which Jackson hadn't read until that time. He tentativelly pitched Miramax to moving-picture show The Hobbit, and shoot two The Lord of the Rings films dorsum-to-back afterward. Producer Harvey Weinstein was enthusiastic, but couldn't become the rights to The Hobbit, which were even so split between Zaentz and a now-bankrupt MGM. Harvey even attempted to buy the rights off of them but proved unsuccesful, suggesting that The Hobbit be postponed equally a possible prequel. Jackson had read The Hobbit by now, and even told Richard Taylor to begin designing it before the conclusion was fabricated to proceed with The Lord of the Rings.

When The Lord of the Rings was put on a turnaround and went to New Line, the rights to The Hobbit in one case again proved unavailable, but Jackson said "New Line will definitely make The Hobbit if LotR is a success." Jackson and his co-writers "couldn't help ourselves" from putting references to The Hobbit into The Lord of the Rings. They had looked at artwork for The Hobbit (Handbag-Cease was designed off of an illustration that John Howe had washed for The Hobbit) and fifty-fifty delved back into the story (with the help of Henry Mortensen) to ascertain that Thorin'southward Map concluded-up with Bilbo. Notwithstanding, during preproduction on The Lord of the Rings, Jackson expressed an stance that "information technology would actually exist harder to conform into a satisfying movie than The Lord of the Rings", citing the tone, the lack of character development and the size of the Dwarf ensemble. He was unsure whether he would direct such an accommodation, saying information technology "depends on my mental condition in 3 years!" During production, Elijah Wood inquired him on this, and Jackson said he "was not interested in that." However, during postal service-production on The 2 Towers he and Fran Walsh spoke to executive producer Mark Ordesky almost doing an adaptation of The Hobbit and a "Lord of the Rings prequel" ready between it and The Lord of the Rings. Philippa Boyens even started toying with casting ideas.

Afterwards The Lord of the Rings trilogy, New Line wanted to go on with The Hobbit, as their lease on the rights from Zaentz was due to expire in 2010.[1] In September 2006, the new ownership and management of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer expressed interest in teaming up with New Line and Jackson to make The Hobbit. [2]

In March 2005, Jackson launched a lawsuit against New Line, claiming he had lost revenue from merchandising, video and computer games releases associated with The Fellowship of the Ring. He did not seek a specific settlement, but requested an inspect to see whether New Line had withheld money owed him. Although Jackson wanted information technology settled before he would make the film, he felt the lawsuit was minor and that New Line would notwithstanding let him brand The Hobbit. New Line co-founder Robert Shaye was bellyaching with the lawsuit and said in January 2007 that Jackson would never once more directly a picture for New Line, accusing him of existence greedy. Shaye approached MGM CEO Harry Sloan with a proposal to suit The Hobbit (and potentially the "bridge" film proposed past Jackson[three]) with Sam Raimi tipped to direct. Sloan had "heard bad things" virtually Jackson, and wanted to hear his size, calling his amanuensis Ken Kamins, and finally having dinner with Kamins, Jackson and Walsh. By the end, he called Shaye, enervating that he "gear up your Peter Jackson problem." With New Line suffering a serial of financial flops in the fantasy genre, and Raimi himself wanting Jackson'due south blessing,[4] Shaye was trying to repair his working relationship with Jackson. Shaye said, "I really respect and adore Peter and would love for him to be creatively involved in some way in The Hobbit." In September, New Line was fined $125,000 for failing to provide requested accounting documents.

On December 18, 2007, it was appear that Jackson would be executive producer of The Hobbit and its sequel. It was hoped that dorsum-to-dorsum shooting on these films would begin in 2009 for December 2010 and December 2011 releases, respectively. It was also appear that New Line and MGM would co-finance the films, and the latter studio would distribute the films exterior Due north America — New Line'due south first always such deal with some other major studio.[5] Producer Mark Ordesky returned to supervise the prequels,[6] and it was initially announced that each film would cost around US$150 meg.[7]

Jackson began delving back into the story, both as presented in The Hobbit as well as the appendices of The Lord of the Rings, pointing out that "one of the drawbacks of The Hobbit is [that] information technology'southward relatively lightweight compared to Lord of the Rings... At that place [are] a lot of sections in which a character like Gandalf disappears for a while. From memory — I mean, I haven't read it for a while now — but I call up he references going off to meet with the White Council, who are actually characters like Galadriel and Saruman and people that we see in Lord of the Rings. He mysteriously vanishes for a while and so comes dorsum, but we don't really know what goes on."[8]

While Raimi was still tentativelly attached, Jackson had wanted Guillermo Del Toro to direct, subsequently having worked with him on an accommodation of Halo. In spite of having made negative remaks before about "sword and sorcery", Guillermo "was very enthusiastic about doing it" when they met him in LA and in April 2008 he signed on to direct both pictures, and it was believed he would motion to New Zealand for four years after finishing Hellboy 2: The Golden Ground forces to develop the trilogy with Jackson and the teams at WETA and Wingnut Films.[9]

The Tolkien Manor filed a lawsuit against New Line on February eleven 2008, for violating Tolkien'southward original deal with Saul Zaentz that they would earn 7.5% of the gross from a film accommodation. The Estate sought compensation of $150 million, because they were only paid $62,500 before production of the trilogy began. A court order was too filed that would allow the Tolkien Trust to terminate whatever rights to future films based on Tolkien'due south work, including The Hobbit and the second derivative prequel.[ten]

Development under Del Toro

After he signed on to direct in April 2008, Del Toro posted on TheOneRing.net forums that he had been enchanted past The Hobbit as a child, but found that Tolkien'south other books "incorporate[ed] geography and genealogy as well complex for my prepubescent brain". In taking the chore of director, del Toro was now "reading like a madman to catch upwardly with a whole new land, a continent of sorts—a cosmology created by bright philologist turned Shaman". He wrote that his appreciation of Tolkien was enhanced by his knowledge of the fantasy genre, and the sociology inquiry he had undertaken while making his own fantasy films.

Pre-production began around Baronial 2008, with del Toro, Jackson, Walsh and Philippa Boyens writing the scripts. Del Toro collaborated with Jackson, Walsh and Boyens via videoconferencing and flew every 3 weeks, back and along from Los Angeles (where some of the designs were done) to New Zealand to visit them. For the first meeting, Jackson, Walsh and Boyens flew to LA and told Guillermo about some of the parts of the story that they wanted to flesh-out such as Dol Guldur and the White Council. They too spoke of the "span" film, with Del Toro later remarking that the sequel would exist about "trying to reconcile the facts of the outset motion-picture show with a slightly unlike bespeak of view. Y'all would exist able to see events that were not witnessed in the beginning."[11] Del Toro spent his mornings writing and afternoons looking at material related to Tolkien to assistance him empathize the writer's work. He watched World War I documentaries and asked for book recommendations from Jackson, who is a collector of World War I memorabilia. Del Toro felt Tolkien's experiences in that war influenced his stories.

Past November 2008, del Toro had said that he, Jackson, Walsh and Boyens would realise something new about the story every week and the script was continually changing. The writing hours increased to twelve each day, as they dedicated 3 weeks to finally deciding the films' structures. The "bridge" flick idea was abased in favour of splitting The Hobbit into two parts: they had considered having the showtime film end with the arrival at the Subconscious Door, but this resulted in the starting time film being "enormously long" compared to the second, and they instead decided to split information technology at the moment the company come across Bard earlier inbound Laketown. During the first few months of 2009, writing would start from 8:xxx am and end at 3:00 pm when del Toro would meet with Weta (i.east., Weta Workshop and Weta Digital film effects companies). Completion of the story outlines and treatments ended in March 2009, and the studios canonical the starting time of writing the screenplay.

Filming was expected to take identify throughout 2010 in New Zealand, with del Toro renovating the Hobbiton sets nearly Matamata. For his part, Jackson had kept the Rivendell scale model and the Bag Cease fix (which he has used as a guest business firm) from the trilogy. During the middle of the shoot, there was expected to exist a pause which would have allowed del Toro to edit The Hobbit while sets would be altered for the second movie. The director expected the shoot to last 370 days.

Jackson revealed in late November 2009 that he anticipated that the script for The Hobbit would not be finished until the beginning of 2010, delaying the start of product until the heart of that summertime (several months after than previously anticipated). The annunciation created doubts about whether the film would make its previously-announced release dates of December 2011 and Dec 2012. Jackson reiterated that no casting decisions had been made. On 22 January 2010, Alan Horn said the first film would likely not be released until the quaternary quarter of 2012.

Del Toro met with Ian McKellen, Andy Serkis, and Hugo Weaving, who hoped to reprise their roles as Gandalf, Gollum and Elrond respectively.[eleven] He and Jackson also expressed interest in having Ian Holm return for a cameo at the beginning, using a framing device to have the "older Bilbo be our way into the story." Having toyed with the thought of casting Martin Freeman as the younger Bilbo Baggins since coming together him in 2002, Boyens suggested him to an eager Del Toro. Sylvester McCoy, who had earlier been considered as a possible substitute for Holm during The Lord of the Rings, was suggested for Radagast. The office of Beorn was written past Del Toro specifically for American role player Ron Perlman. Del Toro had originally considered asking Perlman to voice the dragon Smaug, merely decided against this. Del Toro met with English actor Brian Blest to discuss the possibility of him playing Thorin Oakenshield. The director later stated that he idea Ian McShane "would make the well-nigh perfect dwarf". Frequent del Toro collaborator Doug Jones said that he would dear to play the Elvenking Thranduil, but del Toro later stated that he had another role (or roles) in mind for the actor.

During the writing, they had considered many possible development. Del Toro agreed with his co-writers that the book lacked female characters. They suggested redressing this by giving Bard a wife, but Del Toro said the new female person graphic symbol shouldn't exist someone'south married woman, and instead insisted that she be a warrior. Walsh suggest she should be an Elf, and she was tentativelly caled Itarielle. They wanted a prologue of the sack of Erebor, and Del Toro had expressed interest in dramatizing a scene from the Appendices where Gandalf meets Thorin in Bree.

Del Toro as well met concept artists John Howe and Alan Lee, Weta Workshop head Richard Taylor, brand-up artist Gino Acevedo and composer Howard Shore to keep continuity with the previous films. Del Toro said that he idea the globe of The Hobbit was a "world that is slightly more gold at the start, a very innocent environs [...] taking you from a fourth dimension of more than purity to a darker reality throughout the film, but [in a fashion] in the spirit of the volume". Del Toro likewise hired comic book artists to complement Howe'southward and Lee's style on the trilogy, including Mike Mignola and Wayne Barlowe, who began work around April 2009. He has also considered looking at Tolkien's drawings and using elements of those not used in the trilogy. As Tolkien did non originally intend for the magic ring Bilbo finds to be the all-powerful talisman of evil it is revealed to be in The Lord of the Rings, del Toro said he would accost its different nature in the story, but not then much as to describe away from the story's spirit. Each Dwarf would need to look different from the others. WETA Workshop had began building armour for Thorin, which had horns coming out of the helmet. Del Toro would have redesigned the Goblins and Wargs and the Mirkwood spiders would also have looked different from Shelob. Del Toro felt the Wargs had to exist changed because "the classical incarnation of the demonic wolf in Nordic mythology is not a hyena-shaped creature".

He likewise intends to push the technology of animatronics to new levels; wanting to practice animatronic Trolls that would gyre into assurance. "We really want to take the state-of-the-art animatronics and have a bound x years into the future with the technology we will develop for the creatures in the movie. We have every intention to do for animatronics and special effects what the other films did for virtual reality."[9]

Del Toro also wanted the animals to speak so that Smaug's speech would non be incongruous, though he explained portraying the talking animals would be more almost showing that other characters tin can understand them. Smaug would not have a "snub Simian [mouth] in gild to achieve a dubious lip-synch". Del Toro stated that Smaug would exist the first character design begun and the concluding to be approved. The design was described as alike to a "flying ax" and caused some concern among his collaborators, but ultimately "the visual attribute was under my control." Other design ideas included a steampunk Erebor and an oriental-looking Woodland Realm, with the Elvenking possibly having tattooes.

In 2010, del Toro left the project because of ongoing delays. On 28 May he explained at a press conference that attributable to MGM'south financial troubles the Hobbit project had then not been officially green-lit at the time. "There cannot be whatsoever start dates until the MGM situation gets resolved .... We have designed all the creatures. We've designed the sets and the wardrobe. We take washed animatics and planned very lengthy action sequences. Nosotros take scary sequences and funny sequences and we are very, very prepared for when information technology'southward finally triggered, simply we don't know anything until MGM is solved." Two days later, del Toro announced at TheOneRing.net that "In light of ongoing delays in the setting of a start date for filming", he would "take go out from helming", further stating that "the mounting pressures of alien schedules accept overwhelmed the fourth dimension slot originally allocated for the project. ... I remain an marry to information technology and its makers, present and future, and fully support a smoothen transition to a new director". Reports began to surface around the Net well-nigh possible directors; apparently the studios wanted Jackson, who was wary of taking the reins, and such names every bit Neill Blomkamp, Brett Ratner, David Yates and David Dobkin were mentioned. However, this incident has received negative reaction from many Hobbit fans, who have been angry at MGM for delaying the project. They too tried willing the studio to sell their rights to Warner Brothers. On July 27, del Toro responded to these aroused fans, saying that "Information technology wasn't just MGM. These are very complicated movies, economically and politically."[12] However, some fans were still displeased by the studio'southward crunch.

Preproduction

On June 25, 2010, Jackson announced that he probably would direct "two installments of Hobbit films". He was in negotiation with MGM and Warner Brothers to offset shooting the films at the end of 2010. However, they nonetheless didn't have a green-lite and they were having difficultly getting people bandage without a director. Casting director Liz Mullane and producer Carrolyne Cunningham went to Jackson with this, and he called his amanuensis (and the films' executive producer) Kem Kamins: "Nosotros can't move ahead until this is confirmed." In October of 2010, the film finally received a greenlight to brainstorm production with Peter Jackson as the films director in addition to writer and producer. An agreement was struck between Jackson, MGM and Warner Brothers, which would allow filming to embark effectually February of 2011 with an estimated budget of $500,000,000 for the two films. Jackson

Casting

At Jackson's bidding, Del Toro chosen Martin Freeman to tell him he was withal their choice for the function. However, Freeman had thought the projection was delayed indefinitely and agreed on shooting a 2nd season of Sherlock. They had looked into other actors, including Matthew Goode, James McAvoy, Tobey Maguire and Shia LeBeouf. Eddie Redmayne auditioned, just based his performance too closely on Ian Holm. Adam Brown'southward audition tape was deemed "hillarious" and it was decided to cast him equally i of younger Dwarves (ultimately, Ori) and write him effectually his audition. Dean O'Gorman also auditioned for the part. Jackson somewhen called Freeman'southward amanuensis personally in the middle of the night, asking if Freeman "would be willing to practise The Hobbit" if they could rejig the schedule to accomodate his filming of Sherlock?

Jackson met Ian Holm in order to ask him to briefly reprise the part of old Bilbo. The histrion told him he had contracted Parkinson'due south and was "basically retired but wasn't announcing it." Jackson and Walsh explained the scenes they would have liked to exercise, which spurred Ian'due south enthusiasm and it was decided he would shoot his scenes in London.

While Sylvester McCoy remained their only choice for Radagast, they did audition "just to see who's out there" and saw John Callen, whom they then had auditioned again as a Dwarf, eventually casting him equally Oin. Information technology was confirmed Sir Ian McKellen would reprise his role as Gandalf the Grey. Christopher Lee, who played Saruman in Jackson's films, said he would have liked to have shown the Magician'south abuse past Sauron, but he would not exist comfortable flying to New Zealand at his historic period. Notwithstanding, subsequently, it was confirmed that he would in fact be reprising his role as Saruman, with his footage being shot in the UK. Lee also toyed with the idea of voicing Smaug, simply Jackson recieved an audience tape for Benedict Cumberbatch (which was done without framing his face in) and cast him.

They saw several actors for Thorin, of which Richard Armitage was the youngest. In spite of "imagining an older Thorin", they were absolutely taken with Armitage's audition and bandage him in the part. The other Dwarves were all selected by first auditioning them for the part of Gloin, with dialogue representing all the Dwarf characters. Marker Hadlow auditioned for the part, and so to some other undisclosed part before he succesfully read for Dori. Stephen Hunter, who gave an "upbeat" audition, was cast as Bombur. For Gloin himself, they looked at Bill Bailey (who was previously considered for Gimli) merely bandage Peter Hambelton. Aidan Turner read for Galion, but was bandage equally Kili. Rob Kazinsky was cast equally Fili, merely had to exit due to "health bug" a few days into filming. Jackson recalled O'Gorman's audition for Bilbo, and he was asked to read opposite Aidan. Ken Stott was their first choice for Balin, although they besides had Graham McTavish read for the office after reading for Dwalin, and had considred Peter Mullan. Billy Connoly, another contender for Gimli, was offered the role of Dain.

Having seen him in The Autumn, Jackson wanted Lee Pace as Thranduil. They had met Evangeline Lilly previously, and she came to heed as Tauriel from very early on on, simply she had considered retiring from acting, and had simply given nascence and was bed-ridden. Jackson had considered Eva Green, simply ultimately tried Lilly, who said yep. Orlando Flower jokingly asked Jackson for a cameo, before being asked to return to the role.

William Kircher and Lord Julian Fellowes read for the Master of Laketown, but Jackson wanted Stephen Fry for the function, and decided to recast Kircher as Bifur. Ryan Gage read for Alfrid after the manner of "a used car salesman" but was cast as Drogo Baggins before the role was written out of the script, reverting him back to the role of Alfrid.

During the table-read of the script, William Kircher and others stood-in for the Trolls, and information technology was eventually decided to take them vox the iii Trolls. Conan Stevens was bandage to play Azog, earlier a redesign of the grapheme was chosen for, leaving Conan'due south Azog to exist reconceptualized equally the "dungeon keeper" of Dol Guldur. Mark Rawlins was then cast, earlier his Orc design was repurposed (and recast) as Yazneg. Manu Bennet was cast towards the finish of production to motion-capture Azog.

Design

Jackson had looked over all the artwork left from Del Toro. He decided he couldn't "impersonate" Del Toro and had to redesign the movie, but he nevertheless kept certain ideas, pointing to Laketown as being close to Del Toro's interpertation. Mirkwood was based on Del Toro's concept of an bogus, brightly-coloured forest. Del Toro's armour for Thorin was in place for a while, before it was replaced with a design featuring a raven motif.

Erebor was designed around the geometric designs established for the Dwarves in The Fellowship of the Ring, and given a greenish colour based on Jade, given the position of the Mountain in the due north-east of Center World. Some of Del Toro's ideas for a "steampunk" Erebor were used for the forges, glimpsed in An Unexpected Journey and later added to the climax of The Desolation of Smaug.

The Woodland Realm maintained some of the orientalist influence inspired by Del Toro. Philippa Boyens provided reference for Thranduil with an image of Tom Ford. Tauriel was first designed with a flowing costume fabricated of metallic scales, which didn't complement the post-pregnancy Lilly and was cast aside in favour of a dark-green costume. The armour was designed from a "Sindaring Shield" that Howe had designed for the films during Del Toro'due south tenure.

An early Del Toro design of Smaug was used a placeholder earlier Jackson settled on a Jamie Beswarick sculpture. Smaug was designed but not finalized before the start film was completed, and in finalizing the design in February 2012, information technology was decided he should have just 2 hindlegs instead of four. In fear of doing "some other DragonHeart" Jackson rewrote Smaug to talk to Bilbo psychically through the power of the Ring, simply when he saw a previz of those scenes, it was decided to get dorsum to a lipsynched performance, and they even permit Cumberbatch do some motility capture for reference to Smaug.

Some designs were taken from The Lord of the Rings: when he was starting time tasked with designing the rooms for Handbag End in 1998, John Howe designed a pantry and a dining room, with the latter having been built merely never shown. Both featured in the script and shown in An Unexpected Journey. The White Council chamber of Rivendell was based on a bedroom designed for the Council of Elrond before it was decided to hold it in Elrond'due south study.

Industrial dispute and filming location

On September 24, 2010, the International Federation of Actors issued a Do Not Piece of work order, advising members of its member unions (including the Screen Actors Society) that "The producers...have refused to appoint performers on wedlock-negotiated agreements."[13] This would field of study actors who work on the film to possible expulsion from the marriage.[14] In response, Warner Bros and New Line Movie theatre considered taking the product elsewhere, with Jackson mentioning the possibility of filming in Eastern Europe.[fourteen] Disgruntled Hobbit fans likewise believe it was MGM who started this dispute because of their financial troubles delaying the projection, just in reality, it wasn't.

On 25 October 2010, thousands of New Zealanders organized protestation rallies imploring that production remain in New Zealand, as shifting product to locations outside New Zealand would potentially take toll the country's economy up to $one.5 billion.[15] Later two days of talks with the New Zealand government, Warner Bros. executives decided, on the 27th of October, to motion-picture show The Hobbit in New Zealand as originally planned. In return, the government of New Zealand agreed to introduce legislation to clarify the stardom betwixt independent contractors and employees working in the film production manufacture, and also broaden the regime's financial support for big budget films made in New Zealand.

Production

Principal photography began on 21 March 2011 in Wellington, New Zealand. It was divided into iii "blocks" with the fourth dimension in between used to sentry more locations, approve more designs and look over some of the footage, which was being cutting past editor Jabez Olssen on the set.

Cake One

Filming began on at Wellington Rock Street Studios, with the shot of Bilbo looking through the mushrooms, having fallen into Gollum'south cave with a Goblin imp. It was decided to begin the shoot with those scenes and so as to complete work on the Dwarf costumes, and give Freeman an easier scene with which to "find Bilbo." Andy Serkis, playing Gollum, smashed the Goblin animatronic during the first 24-hour interval, and over the next couple of days he and Freeman performed the "Riddles in the Nighttime" sequence over and over again in its entirety. During photography, Serkis would splash h2o as function of his performance, which resulted in a couple of the cameras used to capture his facial performance breaking down.

They then moved to shooting the Dwarves in Pocketbook-Finish. The scenes, which included a ninety-second long take, utilized a matching greenscreen gear up with a photographic camera slaved to the i used on the live set, which would let Ian McKellen to appear in-scale as Gandalf on the monitor. This caused McKellen dandy discomfort in performing off of an earpiece, only Jackson asssured him "its not always going to be like this."

Jackson restored the original Rivendell set, redressed with golden highlights, to shoot the next scenes. Past now the Dwarves were asked to habiliment heavy packs along with their already heavy costume (which included a fat-adapt to make them seem squat) and required fans and cooling suits to keep cold and hydrated. Jackson had resorted to avert calling "cut", which resulted in fourth dimension being lost because of brand-upwardly and costume checks required for the Dwarves. Instead, scenes were shot accept immediately subsequently accept, to help the actors keep "the energy of the scene going."

The scenes between the Shire and Rivendell were shot later.

Block Ii

The 2d cake of shooting in New Zealand began at the end of August and was completed in December 2011. It included a concentrated period of location shooting, including Hobbiton, an early version of the entrance to Mirkwood, Wilderland and the Pathos of the dragon.

The Elves started shooting in this block. Jackson, Walsh and Boyens had considered pushing Tauriel's love story further, shooting a version of her meeting with Kili that had a stonger sense of "immediate, unexplainable chemistry" and fifty-fifty had them kiss on the Lakeshore just earlier Legolas intervened, but with input from Lilly it was decided to tone these aspects of the love story down.

Cake Three

The third cake of shooting began in 2012 and extended until half dozen July 2012, subsequently 266 days of filming. At the beginning of the block, motion-capture work was done for Smaug and the Necromancer past Benedict Cumberbatch, who likewise visited the set while the company were shooting the scenes outside the Hidden Door. Manu Bennet was bandage to shoot Azgo on the move-capture stage, as well. Early footage of the Boxing of the V Armies was shot, including fighting in the streets of Dale an some early footage of Iron-Colina Dwarf ranks, but Jackson was unhappy with those portions of the scripts, and hadn't had the storyboards to the boxing completed, and information technology was decided to postpone the bulk of the piece of work on the battle to the 2013 pickups for the 2d picture. Much of the Erebor prologue was shot in the terminal few days of production, with Thorin's funeral shot on the last day.

Around 24 June 2012, Jackson and his co-writers saw a rough-cut of the ii films as they currently stood, and sat down to "talk about the shape of the two films." Information technology "didn't structurally feel quite right where 1 finished and the other began" and they wanted to talk over what they wanted to shoot further in the pickups. "What if it was a trilogy?" Jackson asked. They started writing a treatment based on the scripts that reshaped the films into a trilogy. When shooting ended, the executive producers came down to New Zealand to congratulate the filmmakers, who proceeded to pitch the handling to them. They then announced it to the public, saying "We recognized that the richness of the story of The Hobbit, equally well every bit some of the related textile in the appendices of The Lord of the Rings, gave ascension to a uncomplicated question: Exercise we tell more of the tale? And the answer from our perspective as filmmakers and fans was an unreserved 'yes.'"

Pick-up shoots

2012 Pickups

2 weeks of pickups were scheduled for the editing of the start film in 2012. During the pickups, diverse inserts were shot including Bilbo cartoon Sting from its scabbard after some inspirational words from Gandalf, a shot of Bilbo and Thorin overhearing Gandalf and Elrond debating. Two beats were added to the Loftier Pass sequences, first with Bilbo falling off the ledge and rescued by Thorin who then grumbles that the Hobbit "should never accept come", followed past a scene between Bilbo and Bofur right before the Goblin trap-door opens: these were intended to set-up a passage already shot in chief photography during which Bilbo regroups with the company towards the end of the pic. Also added were a few quick inserts of Azog, including a brief scene on Weathertop, and new takes of a few shots including the Goblins first seeing Orcrist and the final reconciliation of Thorin and Bilbo on the Carrock.

2013 Pickups

To accomodate for the added film, the pickup shoot was expanded from six weeks to eight. The actors' were only contracted for two pickup shoots from back when it was 2 films, and the 2013 pickups would have to account for both of the later entries. In 2012, Jackson said that the 2013 pickups would mostly be for the third moving picture rather than the 2nd. At that point, the film was titled In that location and Back Again, and was scheduled to release in July 2014 but was pushed to December 2014. Jackson had convinced Warners to modify the title to The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies, in spite of Warners saying that "films with the word battle in the title don't do very well at the box office."

Jackson had spent the kickoff of 2013 writing the scenes needed for the pickups, and comissioning artwork and previz. Pickups started with Thorin and Gandalf's coming together in Bree, and included a couple of The Desolation of Smaug: Balin admonishing Thorin for not being "yourself" upon hearing the rumbling of Smaug was shot, as was a new entrance to Mirkwood. The live-action components of the Battle of the Forges, concieved every bit a new climax for the 2d picture show, was shot. Thrain'due south scenes were reshot with a new actor, Antony Sher. Instead of Azog killing him, information technology would at present be Sauron.

Seeing the footage of various scenes in which Kili and Legolas stare at 1 another, the filmmakers decided to add an insert where Thranduil tells Tauriel that Legolas "had grown very addicted of" her. Lilly erroneously attributed this add-on to Warners, but agreed that "played well." As well shot were the scenes in Gundabad, replacing an before version where it was Gandalf - riding eastward afterward the Necromancer - who would take discovered the 2d army.

The footage for the Battle of the Five Armies included the confrontation between Tauriel and Thranduil and the various Ravenhill scenes, culminating in Thorin's duel with Azog and subsequent death, which concluded the pickup shoot. Ravenhill was before considered every bit a stage for some of the fighting, but it wasn't until writing for the pickups that information technology was decided to concur the climax of the film there. Jackson continued to shoot motion-capture fabric for reference during 2014, mostly to return the crowds required for the battle sequences.

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Editing

Editor Jabez Olssen would come up on-set to select takes for the edit. He had prepared rough cuts of the films, which Jackson would review between blocks of shooting. They already had a rough cut of An Unexpected Journeying in the two-picture show form past the finish of principle photography only were "already cutting effectually it." Sequences were moved around: the High Fells sequence was still going to be a office of An Unexpected Journey, intercut with the High Fells sequence with the company crossing the Misty Mountains: the storm clouds Gandalf sees would have the same ane that hindered the company at the High Pass. The postal service-production process was "intense" but ultimately the moving-picture show came-out inside minutes of the length Jackson had anticipated.

Olssen had cut the existing footage into the shape that Jackson had required for the 2d and third films. The procedure for the 2d film was more than relaxed untill the concluding reel which required a lot of complex VFX to exist completed downward to the last couple of days. Jackson even institute time to cut parts of the 3rd movie at the same fourth dimension. They had removed an early confrontation between Thranduil and the company of Dwarves, as well equally more Laketown footage to streamline the film. Warners "pushed back" against some of the more grotesque pieces of humour, which Jackson agreed to cut, but kept in mind for the extended edition.

Visual Effects

Scoring

Howard Shore returned to score the films. He started developing themes early "without any pictures" and composed the music for the film'south teaser trailer, setting Plan ix's and David Longe'southward diegetic piece "Far Over the Misty Mountains Cold" to music. This became very succesful, and Jackson had Shore utilise that every bit a theme for the company, largely replacing another theme that Shore had wrote for the company. Shore had had a take a chance to review the picture from the ii-motion picture rough cutting, and had already developed themes for the events and character that would somewhen non exist introduced until The Desolation of Smaug.

For the 2nd and 3rd motion-picture show, it was decided that Shore would piece of work with James Siezmore and Conrad Pope and then that the score could exist recorded in New Zealand. Shore would sketch the music, Seizmore would create synth mockups and from these Pope would orchestrate and and so conduct the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra. Shore was kept in contact throughout, and fifty-fifty had several pieces re-recorded after Smaug's theme was orchestrated with high trumpets making "Smaug sound like a James Bond villain."

Awards

  • University Awards:
    • An Unexpected Journey — Nominations: iii; one laurels (non-competitive)
    • The Pathos of Smaug — Nominations: 3
    • The Battle of the Five Armies - Nominations: i
Honor Moving picture
An Unexpected Journeying The Desolation of Smaug The Battle of the V Armies
Makeup and Hairstyling Nomination
Production Design Nomination
Audio Editing Nomination Nomination
Audio Mixing Nomination
Visual Effects Nomination Nomination
Sci-Tech Award

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Win

Box Office

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey grossed over $1.17 billion dollars at the box office and set a December record of $85,345,900.

The Hobbit: The Pathos of Smaug grossed over $960 1000000 dollars at the box part and it is estimated that the film made a turn a profit of $134.1 million.

The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies grossed over $955 million dollars at the box office. Information technology earned $11.2 million from Tuesday late-dark shows, which was the 2d highest full of 2014.

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References

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  2. ↑ "MGM Eyes Hobbit, T4." IGN, 11 September 2006.
  3. ↑ "Hobbit, Crown, Panther News." IGN, xiv November 2006.
  4. ↑ Markovitz, Adam. "'Hobbit' Forming?" Entertainment Weekly, xvi Apr 2007.
  5. ↑ Michael Fleming. "'Hobbit' back on runway equally twin bill", Multifariousness, 2007-12-xviii. Retrieved on 2007-12-xviii.
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  10. ↑ Alex Viega. "Tolkien Manor Sues New Line Movie house", Associated Press, 2008-02-12. Retrieved on 2008-05-03. Archived from the original on 2008-02-14.
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  16. ↑ The Hobbit picks up technical Oscar - BBC

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